redfishingboat

The professional football team I’ve rooted for in the past has just agreed to pay one million six-hundred thousand dollars to Michael Vick, a man convicted of raising dogs for the purpose of torturing and killing those dogs as entertainment.
I love to watch sports, despite certain problems I have with the value system that professional [...]

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Forty-one days later, my phone rings as I step off a Bart train, Fruitvale station. It’s the default ringtone. I’ve never changed it.
Me: Hello this is Michael.
Female Voice: Hello this is Fujicolor Labs
Me: Yes?
Female Voice: We do processing for Rite-Aid
Me: Yes??
Female Voice: We have some pictures here. Can you identify them?
Me: Yes! They were black [...]

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The sun is setting in Los Angeles. I’m on the 101 with the window rolled down and I’m cranking the stereo. A song that comes on the radio that absolutely: Blows. My. Mind. But, before I tell you what it is, you’ll need to know some background.
Earlier this morning, I see a post [...]

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I love to read self-improvement blogs. They’re always filled with great insights and information that completely misses the point, written by people who exult in telling you how this stuff works without actually understanding why. They didn’t get where they are by “tackling the tough tasks first” or “putting a to-do list next to the [...]

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Play this “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” - The Animals
Every click of the shutter is a moment shared between three people: The subject, the photographer, and ultimately the viewer. Every party in this exchange must give up something. Is the transaction mutually beneficial? Should it be? I suspect that every deal has a [...]

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Play: “Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)” - Flock of Seagulls

As strange things go, this is me: a month ago I never would have considered myself a candidate to get into film photography. I was a digital guy for all the reasons digital cameras make sense. Film is tricky, unwieldy, expensive, slow, and [...]

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Music to read this post by: “The Thumb” - Wes Montgomery (Jazz)

Nobody ever signed my cast. It’s not that I’m not a popular fellow. Well, I’ve always been unpopular, yes.  But, in this matter I’ve just never broken a bone in my body. Sometimes, I’m ashamed of this. I wonder if I haven’t tried hard [...]

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